Past Activities: 2006 - 2008

2008

· CSQA free trainings every quarter of 08
· CSTE free trainings in all quarters of 08
· Six Sigma Green Belt Training – spanning several weekends in Q2 & Q3 of 2008
· Annual Day – Dec 08

Knowledge Sharing Sessions 2008:

  • “SEI Practices for process maturity” - SEI CEO Dr. Paul Nielsen and Blending Learning Coordinator of SEI Dr. Phil Miller
  • "IT Vision 2020" - Ex-Chief Minister and President of TDP – 19th Jan 08
  • ‘Project Management accreditations – current trends’ - Mr Ramani, Head PMCOE (Project Management Centre of Excellence) of QAI - 14th Feb 08
  • “Benefits of building Estimation Competency' – an overview of Estimation Techniques” - Ms. Bharathi Vasanthakrishna, Head of Kornerstone Consultants – 14th Mar 08
  • Overview of Six Sigma Green Belt – Maneesha Josyula Group Manager, Invensys Development Centre India Pvt Ltd - 10th Apr 08
  • "Overcoming the Hardships of Soft People (IT Professionals)" - Dr. Bakhtiar, famous trainer & physician – 12th Jun 08
  • “Security Testing” - Dr Ravi Kiran Raju Yerra, Associate Vice President –Application Security Testing, Semanticspace pvt ltd – 4th Sep 08
  • "Service Chain Management" - Prof. Sandeep Kayasta, Dean-Academics at IBS (ICFAI Business School) – 18th Sep 08
  • "Innovation: Enablers and Challenges" - Mr. Srinivas Thummalapalli, Catalyst, Sumantrana Advisory – 4th Nov 08
  • "High maturity practice implementation of CMMI V 1.2 – a best practice” - Mr. Vasudeva Sharma, Sr. Manager, Virtusa – 2nd Dec 08

2007

· CSQA free trainings every quarter of 07
· CSTE free trainings in all quarters of 07
· Benchmarking 2007 – Process Benchmarking & Metrics Benchmarking from Sep to Dec 07
· Quality Workshop to share best practices – Dec 07
· Annual Day – Dec 07
Knowledge Sharing Sessions 2007:

  • “An overview of Psychometric Testing & Assessment Practice” - Dr. Ms. Krithka, Consultant of Assessment practice of Ma Foi consultants, Clinical Psychologist, and a student counselor for CBSE School – 29th Jan 07
  • “Effective usage of testing tools for automation” - Mr. Jay Swamidass, Technical Manager of QuEdge – 14th Feb 07
  • “One Page Management System (OPMS)” - Mr. Chandy and Mr. John, a Systems Scientist – 13th Mar 07
  • “ISO standards pertinent to the software Industry - An Overview” - Mr. D Satyaprakash, Lead Auditor, Det Norske Veritas AS (DNV) – 26th Mar 07
  • "Application Services Library (ASL) – for Application Management" - Ms. Sharada Prasadita, Sr. Manager – AMS Global Engagement, Infor Technologies – 25th Apr 07
  • “Application of Lean Six Sigma in Software” - Mr. Hiren Dalal, Director and MBB, Asia South, CA – 1st Jun 07
  • "Software Metrics and how PMPal can assist in collation, computation, compilation and distribution of Software Metrics” - Mr. Murali Chemuturi, a Chief Consultant in IT consulting and Product development – 18th Jun 07
  • “Test Process Improvement, using Test Maturity Model” from Mr. Arun Khannur, CEO of ISQT of Bangalore – 31st Oct 07

2006
· Re-designing of web site
· Sessions from Sitara QAI, QSIT, Parasoft, Kornerstones, ISI, QCFI
· CSQA free trainings every quarter of 06
· HYDSPIN SEPG Conference – 7th Oct 06
· Annual Day – 16th Dec 06
Knowledge Sharing Sessions 2006:

  • “Information Security and Data Privacy, Challenges and Opportunities (ISO 27001 & BS7799 linkage)” - by Mr. Chalam V Peddada, Head of ISBC, Satyam Technology – 10th Jan 06
  • “NASSCOM BSA Certificate of Recognition Programme“ - Mr. Vipul Sant, BSA Marketing Sub-Committee Chair - 19-Jan-06
  • “Insight into test case reusability using Q- Patterns (Questioning Patterns)“ - Mr. Vipul Kocher from Pure Testing - 30-Jan-06
  • "Standards and Models based Process Improvements: What not to be done? " - Mr. Tumu Satish Kumar, Principal Consultant, SEI authorized SCAMPI Lead Appraiser, Concept Quality Assurance Labs Pvt. Ltd – 11th Feb 06
  • Effective methods of performance testing using leased tools" - Mr. Manoj Jain, Team Lead of Testing group, Computer Associates – 17th Feb 06 "Social Accountability Standard - SA8000:2001" - Mr. N Sreenivasa Rao, Lead Auditor in QMS & Social Accountability systems, DET NORSKE VERITAS AS (DNV) – 10th Mar 06
  • "Lean Thinking – Looking beyond CMMI" - Mr. Arun Khannur, CEO of QSIT PCS of B'lore – 5th Apr 06
  • An overview of the product "Procon" - Ms. Sandhya Vankamamidi, Head of Development, Goose Technologies – 20th Apr 06
  • "Presentation on Bangalore Industry Benchmarking results" - Mr. Krishna Kishore, Sr. Consultant, KPMG 29th Apr 06
  • "Essentials of Test Design" - Mr. Praveen Kumar, Project Lead of VisualSoft Technologies Ltd – 11th May 06
  • "Competitive Advantage Through People" - The best practices distilled from successful firms - Mr. Srinivas Thummalapalli, Director - Management Advisory Services, TUV Rheinland India Ltd. – 23rd May 06
  • Use Cases in Acceptance Testing, Ms. Sushma Mudigonda, Consultant, Kornerstone Consultants – 9th Jun 06
  • "Competitive Advantage Through People" - The best practices distilled from successful firms - Mr. Srinivas Thummalapalli, Director - Management Advisory Services, TUV Rheinland India Ltd. – 11th Jul 06
  • “Compliance in Information Security Management Systems" - Mr. Duggirala Satya Prakash, Manager – Operations, Det Norske Veritas AS (DNV), Lead auditor for ISO 9001:2000, Lead Auditor for BS 7799 / ISO 27001, Training Facilitaror for QMS, ISMS, ITSMS, Customized Programs – 28th Aug 06
  • Influence without authority - Mr. Shanmugavel Sankaran, Support Analyst in Microsoft Global Delivery Centre India – 15th Sep 06
  • “Implementation differences from CMMI 1.1 to CMMI 1.2” - Mr. Puthucode Ganesh, Principal Consultant, and Head of Concept QA Labs – 29th Sep 06
  • “Innovation in Training & Learning” - Ms. Nalini Marthi, CMD of MeritScholar IT Solutions – 13th Oct 06
  • Overview of Agile-Scrum - Mr. Amir Kolsky, Sr. Consultant of Net Objectives – 6th Nov 06
  • “Risk Monitoring using Project Metrics” - Mr. Sridhar Chakravarthi, CEO, Sridhar's Quality Academy – 30th Nov 06